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roused up the nation from a sort of torpor of the body politic, 

 but impressment was left where we found it, unprovided for 

 by treaty stipulations. 



It is quite possible the governments of both countries got 

 heartily sick of the war, and so made peace. On the part of 

 Great Britain, it was certainly a poor, and very small busi- 

 ness, and if continued, would have issued eventually greatly 

 to her injury. England can never have any interest in quar- 

 reling with us whose trade is all she needs, and which war 

 interrupts and if persisted in, and continued very long, would 

 finally destroy. War long continued with England would 

 make us a manufacturing nation, and independent of England. 

 We have no interest in quarrelling with our old stepmother, 

 whose language we speak, and whose institutions we have 

 copied, and bid fair to extend and perpetuate over all North 

 America. 



To all human appearance, this nation is eventually destin- 

 ed to be the most powerful one that now is, ever was, or ever 

 will be on the globe. At our present rate of national increase, 

 in numbers, wealth and power, in one century to come, this 

 nation will consist of more than one hundred millions of peo- 

 ple, who will occupy the surface of all North America; whose 

 commerce will encircle the globe, and whose power will be felt 

 on every sea, and in every country of the whole earth. May 

 her mercy and benevolence be coextensive with her power; 

 protecting the weak, warring only on the unjust, and enlight- 

 ning the ignorant. May she carry all the useful arts to every 

 portion of mankind, and spread the benign principles of the 

 gospel in all lands. Thus our nation may, if she will, become 

 a blessing to all mankind. 



